why from moscow you're watching r t i menes now with the weekly for you this sunday and the wall street protests that kicked off in new york three weeks ago have now we're going into a nationwide rally and golfing a growing number of u.s. cities every day demonstrators inspired by the arab spring demand an end to social inequality and corporate greed and as their calls for revolution get louder the authorities and media are finding them harder to ignore are just reporting reports . the collective voices of american dissent has manifested into a movement impossible to ignore occupy wall street began in the world's financial capital but this week protests have blease to dozens of cities nationwide. in the big apple up to fifteen thousand americans flooded lower manhattan labor

unions transport workers teachers nurses and u.s. veterans standing shoulder to shoulder with young activists spearheading a fight against us wealth inequality and corporate greed young people right now have no hope in our society i just want to see a fairer more just society for the young people coming up and all of the american people right now are suffering through these hard economic times this seems pretty revolutionary to me in the spirit of revolution is here and so i need to be a part of what you are not a breed to be arrested anymore the whole entire control of the police state disappears and when that happens there are credible possibilities that are open to us and certainly you can imagine a different world if you believe you can be an agent of change the occupy movement has gained such momentum even the president who promised change was forced to address the issue i think people are frustrated and. the protestors

are. giving voice to a more broad based frustration. about how our financial system works but the american people understand that not everybody's been following the rules. that wall street is an example of that these days a lot of folks who are doing the right thing aren't rewarded and a lot of folks who are doing the right thing are rewarded while the u.s. has encouraged and supported democratic uprisings in the arab world the same events playing out at home have been met with baton pepper spray and the arrests of nearly eight hundred peaceful protesters on the brooklyn bridge a scene that reminded some of egypt's to fear square you can follow me lead over our brothers and sisters all over the world be careful spring in greece and spain and we can see that it did send a powerful message ordinary people are not going to stand for corporate greed anymore and that we're getting up and we're doing something about it three weeks

into the anti wall street demonstrations the new york city police department has pumped two million dollars into overtime pay fines some critics say are being used to repress freedom two miles from the chaos of the united nations even financier and billionaire george soros who weighed in on the populist uprising actually i can understand the sentiment the decision not to inject capital into the banks but to effectively relieve them of bed this gives the banks. profits as they can consume but. even says grievances spearheaded so loud and large that mainstream media outlets have been left with no other choice but to cover the protests in a matter of weeks occupy wall street has not only mobilized international expansion many believe this ongoing of that would become like earning points in the u.s.

we're about to back and politicians can still work for the majority of the people not cynical active demanding democracy from the very later this capital murder arena for diane artsy new york. well former wall street executive richard ascalon says protesters support is being driven by their bid to restore basic democratic values. this is actually for a political protest movement that's so young it's grown and gathered a surprising amount of support from surprising quarters in a very very short time for example you have several very major unions joining up with this group that's primarily young people and saying that we're on the same side we support them they support us i think what they're doing is reasserting a set of values you know everybody who wants a job should get

a job business people and their customers should deal with one another fairly and honestly crimes including corporate crime should be punished and so on so if you think of it as the early stage of a movement where it's the clarion it's fundamental values and principles then i think it's actually although it's probably intuitive or accidental it's actually pretty smart of them not to get pinned down in saying we want a financial transactions tax or we want a blue ribbon investigation of wall street crime there really and this is why they've been able i think to start to get some attention. well u.s. correspondents are in the heart of the events in the lower manhattan keeping you updated on how the protests grow lucic often over talking to demonstrators police and reporters and is posting the latest pictures from the campaign online you can follow the action on our twitter feed at r.t. underscore prom. and later in the program we'll look at how financial distress is

also driving people onto the streets of the greek capital and our g. crew witnesses police violence in athens as anger among all dirty hit greeks reaches boiling point. plus also coming up history falls victim to political correctness in france fears the younger generation might lose its sense of national identity we look at what pages are being removed from textbooks and why. the first wave of violence has swept across syria this weekend with at least fourteen people killed in clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters some of the most severe scenes came at the funeral of a kurdish opposition leader in the north east of the country syrian authorities insist they are targeting armed terrorist groups not peaceful protesters in the kurdish opposition leader was killed by militants because he was against fine intervention in the country syria has been in a state of chaos since mid march following protests demanding president step down

meanwhile the media race to out the regime forced many into a surprising you turn this week as our days are bennett explains. she was hailed as the flower of syria the symbol of the suffering under president bashar assad's brutal regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent butchering of zeinab hosni we have you pictures of what was done to xena corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air several western media outlets were quick to report cell holes in these gruesome deaths apparently the first woman killed in government custody. but now it appears she's miraculously back from the dead even being interviewed on syrian t.v. . i came to the police station to see the truth this what i see to those line channels i'm now still alive not dead human rights groups like amnesty international jumped on the bandwagon to reporting out hosni was tortured murdered and mutilated it even claimed mother found the body in

a morgue last month all assertions is now being forced to backtrack on this we will endeavor to be more cautious and phrase things a little bit more nuanced the state broadcaster says the interviews to dispel what it labels fabrications by foreign media to serve western interests in stories like this that have been used to prop up calls from the u.s. britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shaky or the never this footage religiously shows an armed pro assad civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels say perhaps not the peaceful opposition they're often made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way . this notion that the u.s. is now part of this pro-democracy russi regime is ridiculous they are jumping on that bandwagon is an opportunity to get out front of it and create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's

a porting the dictatorships that are aligned with them in the united nations and as part of their empire russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution for syria seeing through it as a potential cover for another libyan style intervention so they may not be any oil this time but there's always an ulterior motive our partners in the u.n. security council do not rule out a replay of the libyan scenario although they said more than once that they clearly understood syria is very different to libya russia will continue resisting attempts to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that aim to overthrow political regimes the u.s. was not created for that post the vetoes of followed by security council walkout from america over remarks during the syrian envoy speech but the u.s. promised to be back with another resolution and undoubtedly more dramatic evidence to drive the point home either bennett r.t. . a key advisor tears syria's president asad told r.t. the country is authorities fully embrace russia and china of call to end the

bloodshed through dialogue. the majority of laws that should have been passed are now adopted will work to amend the constitution is underway the problem is that some states fund and arm terrorist groups operating in our towns and villages this makes ordinary people's lives very difficult and puts them in real danger the position of the western countries encourages these terrorist groups we share russia and china's view that it's impossible to move forward without dialogue with the alternative is blood spilling civil war and into religious crashers. but full interview with dr siobhan is coming to you a few hours here in our team and in just ten minutes we report on how the ongoing fighting in libya is affecting the lives of civilians there of revolutionary forces intensify their assault on the japanese home town of syria with axworthy why the human cost of the so-called liberation is often going on notice in the media.

this week struggling european economies were dealt another blow by ratings agencies which downgraded italy and spain fears over the debt crisis were also intensified by the downgrade of several british and portuguese banks greece remains the centerpiece with the international creditors still not sure the country is doing enough to get another cash injection and boy to the country has delivered an ultimatum wrap up the costs or face total collapse that's after athens admitted failing to reduce its deficit to the agreed level despite the real austerity drive but the nation's economy in tatters and sarah first reports the needs of the people are taking second place to big bank to match. syntagma square once again bearing witness to clashes between what few is protest is so we going to take that back around to. the right.

and the tensions really been rising as the police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking seeing this one point the police seem chasing protests as into the metro station many of those hit kicks by they supposed to be keeping control of the message being sent by the government is going to repression and fear. scenes like this are very serious questions about the level of fools being used. to pry as is a forty three year old journalist he's reported from many conflicts but it was in his own country where he sustained his. but the next i just remember thinking is this really happening including us i took shelter in an enclosure just off syntagma and one policeman who i think was a commander asked in a very rude why i was taking pictures i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order and i had one of the flash bangs thrown at me these are some of the last pictures i took you not the place he taken shelter

amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all deafness and injury which is causing a less his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small hill. an investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a fireman a list tells us the countless cases against heavy handed police tactics and need to have any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out one journalist flung with his camera to the ground the rise in the level of aggression seen by the police and the more extreme groups of protesters is causing serious concern with the government continuing to implement severe austerity measures in a bid to receive that cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think we are forced. to explain it's a form. of you know the first reaction.

from europe. has been expressed in july. the impact of the financial crisis is being played out blow by blow and syntagma square there are now fears that the financial crisis turned into an economic recession could bring entire year is a just to bring people to their knees surf city. well greek people are suffering because of mistakes made by politicians and athens only escape wise outside the eurozone so as a member of the european parliament paul not zero. basically the money is going to pay off debt but the problem is they're not producing. and it's it's interesting you should never have been allowed to get into the euro in the first place they broke so many rules their own rules to get greece in because this was all about politics it wasn't about economics and i feel very very sore for the greek people

the only way that the greek people will get back on their feet again is to come out of your all together and look it won't be the end of the world for greece argentina was the last major countries to falter in two thousand and one between two thousand and one and two thousand and six argentina's economy grew by sixty percent that is the answer to greece if you poll the polls that these people are being made to suffer because of ideological decisions that were taken many miles away in brussels ten years ago coming up next hour for you crushing the crisis robert foster explores the plunging global economy in an unprecedented way you can join us to listen in to his wrist fashion wrap in a brand new show here on r.t. here's a preview. the levels rising as the u.s. crisis is imminent smash the debt ceiling fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in the streets the i.m.f. imposed structurally unjust programs in greece where the term economy entered our language from the greek economy of meaning household management. managing theories

abound but in practice is anyone actually know what the hell is even happening. this week the u.s. led war in afghanistan passed its ten year mark with nato troops still no closer to victory over the taliban the chorus of criticism over the occupation gets louder with the latest failure stamp coming from a former german general who planned his nation's role in the operation a decade ago nato plans on a full withdrawal from the country by the end of twenty fourteen but as jason motluk now reports the evidence on the ground shows there's no rush to me. if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger with u.s. led forces over in the taliban in late two thousand and one bugbear field is little more than a flight tower in a cracked roadway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city but still do over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft and enough equals to cause traffic jams in the expansion is

no way aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more maybe more hardware after sending an extra thirty thousand troops to afghanistan last year president obama started bringing them home this summer but with afghan forces struggling to stand alone it's likely that less will leave than planned and bases like this one aren't going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tough you know long deployments you can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino or grab some take out the new pizza hut franchise and if you're tired of working out in the gym you're free to go to the salon for a hair cut in the sides although some officials have tried to limit such amenities calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have these years. where you see your family see that you see this land and have it take that right.

local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business within. and outside the war without agreement of soldiers my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees deadly taliban rocket attacks are on the rise it is the base becomes more and more crowded the threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high its walls become every rock it's a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel it's all into one tight spot close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may be to forget at times this is still a war zone jason must look for. a white house official has suggested the cia and special forces could stay in afghanistan long after the troops have left and according to brian becker of the appropriate answer coalition there's no way the u.s. would have banded a region that so strategically important. if the u.s.

military were to leave afghanistan all together or if it were to leave iraq all together those governments would become independent determining governments free of foreign interference or foreign occupation that's what would happen they would form their own natural alliances with their neighbors the united states does not want that this is the great prize this is a geo strategic way and resource rich part of the world united states is there for the long term and i think that's the real goal is to put firmly afghanistan and the surrounding countries into an american sphere of influence i think the karzai government really is an extension of american power which has a masquerade the fiction of a nato cover but really it's an american power cards i of course probably cannot survive without outside support after all the outsiders the occupiers put him into power i don't think he has any real legitimacy or credibility for his people. antiwar sentiment is growing in britain which has been fact that largest number of

troops in afghanistan in london's trafalgar square big crowds mark a decade of war with a defiant get out and now that they are on it was there you can watch his report at our team dot com. fierce fighting for gadhafi is hometown of syria continues and they be aware revolutionary forces claim they've seized the convention center the main base of the colonel's loyalist for over two days now that he is in term rulers have been waging one of the biggest assaults yet on the most important remaining stronghold of the ousted leader revolutionary forces claimed they control most of the town that's been under siege for three weeks now libya's interim leaders say failure to take syria is the only thing keeping them from formally declaring liberation and scheduling elections but author and journalist afshin rattansi says pursuing this

aim cannot justify atrocities often ignored by mainstream media. this is what nato are involved in an action which is obviously contrary to the u.n. resolution which is supposedly mandated to go in and overthrow the government of gadhafi we're getting reports of electric torture electric shock torture being used by these revolutionaries who exactly other people that are fighting nato because they may not like it are free they may not like the nature of troops it's very interesting that the most advanced arsenal in the world of nato is six months on and they still haven't won the country this is all about the idea that these great powers as of old can divide up the resources and the future of the libyan people why they're quiet about it the media kind of got bored after the initial explosions and the so-called attack the don't even reporting the bombing of hospitals in.

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black slavery and just six on the time of napoleon shown here sitting on a toilet for a new history school books breaching parents and teachers who cool it's political correctness gone. the bestseller on the. front boiler so hate it's all the. minorities the history of their adopted country they do feel french we are already seeing riots in our streets. the crusades the called insulting to muslims the sun king louis the fourteenth to imperial and the pony and smoked as the colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king ken kumu thought of thirteenth century west africa. the purge even extends to reuters studied round the world including les miserables look all to victor hugo france is already breaking up things professor casale because it's

young people have no sense of identity parents are concerned we have to study even the worst pages of our history because you can't understand what happened for politics now in france if you don't understand the history. they want to understand and to vote properly legal action scene is the only way to stop the removal of national history of all of the schools now give ten percent of their share deal to the medieval african moline point i've studied it and what exactly is it contribution to world development. thousands of signed a petition of the french revolution lessons were replaced by the african kingdom of more than multiple which many say they've never heard of the ministry of education refused to be interviewed but gave us this statement. which arranging the school curriculum to reflect globalisation being taught because it's important to have a view on the world cultures such as egypt and india the new european parliament

reports but compulsory school lessons on the benefits of the e.u. from quote a very young age critics want kids are learning less and less about their own country states which stop teaching maypoles they say can so in themselves to history. the new bush or altie paris. to take a short break here on our team and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories. are

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you are to live from moscow word seven thirty pm of the week's top stories the american spring spreads across the country with demonstrators demanding an end to social inequality and corporations abuse of power however the u.s. government is often arms against the protesters spite washington's board of revolutions oversee. this week the u.s. led war in afghanistan passed its ten year mark with victory over the taliban and the pullout of foreign troops still a long way from reality. police and demonstrators clashed on the streets of athens after the i.m.f. ultimatum to the country to make cuts or face collapse that's after greece admitted failing to reduce its deficit the agreed level despite a relentless a star to try.